Yarrowia lipolytica is a saccharomycetous oleaginous yeast with a long history of industrial use. Thanks to the increasingly advanced knowledge of its metabolic pathways, this yeast has had a great opening in the market, giving way to great business opportunities, becoming a great cellular factory.
Y. lipolytica meets all the requirements for the economic viability of a microbial bioprocess. Therefore, different companies such as Biocatalysts Ltd, Mayoly, DSM, Microbia Inc among others, have found a great potential to use it to produce different products such as citric acid, carotenoids and proteins, moving large millions of euros.
More and more companies are betting on the research and biotechnological application of Y. lipolytica thanks to its unique metabolic, genetic and physiological characteristics